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The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden. These treasures can now be searched, browsed and discovered again within Gale Digital Collections.

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The 19th Century British Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

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As compelling as it is comprehensive, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects.

Courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System.

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Newspaper, magazine, and academic peer-reviewed articles from the many leading publications and reference sources, the majority in full text. Includes the New York Times from 1995 to present. Interdisciplinary in scope.

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Newspaper, magazine, and academic peer-reviewed articles from leading publications and reference sources. Interdisciplinary in scope, the database includes abstracting and indexing for nearly 15,000 publications, over 6,000 of them peer reviewed and 10,500+ full text, covering all academic subjects.

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Academic Video Online: Premium is designed to bring the highest-quality video content to the broadest range of subject areas. It delivers more than 48,000 video titles spanning essential subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, history, music, film, and more. More than half of the titles can be found only at Alexander Street.

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AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill is an innovative online resource that provides access to more than 50 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of photos and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to download content to a mobile device.

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A comprehensive online resource for physical therapy education, AccessPhysiotherapy from McGraw-Hill is a groundbreaking platform featuring learning tools such as video demonstrations, image slides, online dissection, and quizzes to test your knowledge. The complete contents of physical therapy textbooks and resources such Orthopaedic Examination, Evaluation, and Intervention; Pharmacology for the Physical Therapist; Therapeutic Modalities for Rehabilitation; Imaging in Rehabilitation; and much more, are also included.

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The ACI Scholarly Blog indexes over 15,000 scholarly and authoritative blogs from experts in all fields of science, engineering, health and medicine, the social sciences, law and the humanities.

All blogs are individually chosen by researchers with expertise in that blog’s topic or field of study. Care is taken in determining the subject coverage and enforcing editorial guidelines to ensure high standards in blog content and data quality. Author credentials are reviewed by subject experts to ensure quality material is included. Anonymous blogs are not currently included.

If you are the author of a scholarly blog, and would like to suggest your blog or one your read regularly be included, there is a recommend a blog form.

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You may search keywords to easily locate relevant scholarly blogs, but there are some great advanced tools to narrow down and filter your results. Try locating blogs by author, and then filter your results with the facets on the left, including publication, author degree, Library of Congress classification.

You can easily save the material with tools such as Endnote, Zotero and Easy Bib.

To access premium features, create a personal account to search and save material you locate via ACI. You must use your Northeastern e-mail address and then create a password of your own choosing.

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The ACM Digital Library contains full-text access to most ACM periodicals and conference proceedings from 1985 to the present, including proceedings and publications of affiliated societies. It replaces the library's suite of print ACM subscriptions.

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AgeLine focuses on those aged 50+ and issues of aging. Useful for searching for the literature of social gerontology and includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. AgeLine indexes over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos.

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Offers full text articles for nearly 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.

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The Manual home page allows you to navigate quickly and intuitively. You can use the quick search feature, which searches the full text of the Manual, or you can navigate using the left-side menu to jump to any section of the Manual.

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Digitized images of the pages of 1000 American magazines and journals published between 1741 and 1940. Titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several consumer magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, and Ladies' Home Journal. The search interface allows you to search the complete text, including tables of contents. Articles are downloadable in PDF format. Updated daily.

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An exceptional compilation of document types from the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidencies as well as records from federal agencies. Issues of the challenging times chronicled span women's rights, environmental issues, urban renewal, rural development, tax reform, civil rights, space exploration, international trade, War on Poverty, and the Watergate trials. Kennedy files include documents from the 1960 presidential campaign and cover the major issues of the Kennedy presidency including women's rights, urban renewal, rural development, tax reform, civil rights, space exploration, and international trade.

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The core content of this work reviews and analyzes the process by which aspirants to the American presidency have campaigned for the support of the national electorate and how voters have made their selections from 1789 to the present day. Content includes primary documents, images, chronologies, and state-by-state analysis of election results.

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This broad ranging web site exploring all aspects of rhetoric includes an Online Speech Bank of over 5.000 audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events.

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The ASCE Research Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering. Includes more than 73,000 full-text papers from ASCE Journals and Proceedings. Approximately 4,000 new papers will be added each year.

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An online service of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource offers access to backfiles of up to 100 years, as well as current content from AAA's 32 anthropological publications which includes journals, books, monographs, bulletins and newsletters.

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This edition of the ARL Statistics describes the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities for the 126 members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in fiscal year 2010-2011.

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A comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts. This collection includes the specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on Western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals, Arts and Humanities Full Text.

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Gale Artemis is a path-breaking research experience that unites Gale's globally acclaimed digital archives. Artemis Primary Sources allows researchers to uncover primary source documents in archives where they may not have thought to look, greatly enhancing their research experience. By building a seamless research environment for multiple collections, Gale is creating the largest digital humanities and social sciences collection in the world.

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Citations and abstracts from over 1,160 of the world's leading journals in archeology, architecture, dance, music, film and theater, history, humanities, literature, and religion. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Covers 1975-present

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ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, photography, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images. See system requirements for optimal use.

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This database is a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture since 1934, covering the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation and interior design and decoration.

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The entire BBC Shakespeare, produced in the 1970s and 1980s, now viewable from any computer or other device connected to the internet. These productions include some of Britain’s most distinguished performers, and productions range from quite traditional to more adventurous. View the plays in their entirety, or link to specific Acts for teaching and presentation; turn Closed Captioning on or off with a single click.

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Biographies, current and historic, with related full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers. Pictures, links to vetted websites. Search for people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text. Some obituaries. Formerly Biography Resource Center.

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Not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

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A comprehensive view of life sciences research, including the most important discoveries, significant influences and relevant connections. BIOSIS Citation Index combines the unique BIOSIS content that is critical to life sciences research with powerful citation indexing.

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Biological Abstracts, the premier database of research in Biology and related disciplines. International coverage of scholarly articles, books and book chapters, meetings and conferences, patents and software. 1969-present, updated weekly.

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The Book Citation Index in Web of Science connects a library’s book collection to powerful new discovery tools, giving researchers the ability to quickly and easily identify and access the most relevant books. As a part of Web of Science, Book Citation Index allows users to search seamlessly across books, journals and conference proceedings to find the information most relevant to their work within one platform.

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5100 digitized photographs from the Northeastern Library's Archives and Special Collections. The photographs date from about 1915-2000, with the bulk of the material dating from 1940-1995, mostly in black and white.

They photographs individuals who have directed, organized, advised, and staffed the BGCB, including Executive Directors Arthur T. Burger (1935-1960) and William Lynch (1960-1967). They also provide information about awards given by the clubhouses for achievement in sports, games, and academics, and detail clubhouse sponsored contests in which members participated. They document the facilities of the BGCB, specifically Charlestown, Roxbury, and South Boston, as well as buildings within the Boston communities. Photographs concerning promotional campaigns, such as images from window exhibits, billboards, and MBTA stations are represented. Also documented are BGCB fund raisers, many of which involved celebrities, including Roger Clemens, Senator Ted Kennedy, Jackie Robinson, and Ted Williams.

The images provide a glimpse into the clubhouses and the activities in which the children were involved. The largest group of photographs falls under the category of program and events, including many types of educational programs including tutoring programs, classes, and workshops. Highlights include images from the Bunker Hillbillies and the Tom Pappas Chefs Club. Photographs of events held by the clubs, such as their 100th Anniversary in 1993 and the annual road race in Charlestown are also included here.

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For more than 40 years (1972-2013), the Phoenix was Boston's alternative newspaper of record, the first word on social justice, politics, as well as the arts and music scene. The Phoenix and its sister publications are being digitized, and selected issues are available electronically beginning in 2012.

An author index covering 1973-1990 allows searching by the journalist's name for issues and articles that can be individually requested for digitization.

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Over 3,000 documents and images selected from the Citywide Educational Coalition records, Frieda Garcia papers, Frank J. Miranda papers, Carmen A. Pola papers, Phyllis M. Ryan papers, and Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, Inc. records held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. The records consist of reports, correspondence, memorandum, newsletters, flyers, posters, legal proceedings, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools and its effect on the students, parents, and communities in Boston.

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The documents, images, and posters in this digital collection were selected from the Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción records and the La Alianza Hispana records held in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department. These records available in this online collection document public policy formation, community relations, affordable housing, urban planning and housing rehabilitation, cultural and educational programming, violence prevention, and minority rights in Boston during the last decades of the 20th century.

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One of the oldest and most well-known reference sources, with both short and book-length overview articles in almost all disciplines. Also includes historical timelines, multimedia, selected magazine articles, notable quotations, and a dictionary and thesaurus.

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Formerly called 19th Century British Newspapers, the British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

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BrowZine Web Editions allows for desktop browsing of the popular web app, BrowZine, that allows you to browse, read, and monitor many of the library’s scholarly journals in a format optimized for your iOS or Android device.

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This online version of the 7th Edition of the major reference work, offering access to broad coverage of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery for new, as well as experienced, medicinal chemists, biologists, pharmacologists, and molecular biologists.

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Actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses. Presents sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries which serve as examples of how to approach, structure and compose business plans.

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Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. Detailed author profiles for the 40,000 most-cited authors. Searchable by company and industry also. Includes marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

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Cabell's Directories includes addresses, phones, e-mails and web sites for journals. Northeastern University has access to the following directories from Cabell's: Accounting, Economics & Finance, Management, Marketing.

Cabell's Business Directories are available courtesy of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business.

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Completely searchable full text of the 247 volumes in the Cambridge Histories series. Explore American and British history, ancient history, Islamic history, economic history, the histories of philosophy, science, music, literature, religion, social histories, and much more. "My Histories" allows you to create and share a personalized library with your own bookmarks and notes.

Stable links to PDFs of books and book chapters can be inserted into Blackboard.

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Created from the renowned holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920, is the largest and most significant collection of its kind. More than 1,200 fully cataloged and searchable books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera cover the history of this broad region from the 16th century to the early 20th century.

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Over 2,000 documents and images selected from the Carmen Pola papers held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. The records document Pola’s work with the Massachusetts Advocacy Center’s Project to Monitor the Code of Discipline, the Boston Public School’s Bilingual Education program, and her community activism efforts for the annual Puerto Rican Festival, Festival Puertorriqueño, in Boston.

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English as a Second Language, Government, History, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Special Collections

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ccAdvisor offers reviews and analysis of hundreds of information resources including databases, ebook collections, open access resources, and image and video collections. ccAdvisor provides scorecards, reviews by subject experts, and comparison tables to save researchers time and effort locating the best sources for study.

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The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) collects and makes available important and rare collections of primary source materials, as well as thousands of foreign dissertations, historical journals, and newspapers from around the world.

The collections are so varied as to include an unpublished manuscript music collection from Oxford, the vast engineering library of Linda Hall, and rare monograph and pamphlet area collections from various regions of the world. For example, the Sutro Library Mexican collection includes over 3,000 titles from the 1500-1900 time period, covering cultural, economic, political, religious, and social themes in Mexican history.

These collections are made available in print, in microfilm, and, in many cases, online. Faculty, students, and staff are eligible to borrow resources through an extended delivery system or, when available, through electronic delivery or online. See our Subject Guide to the Center for Research Libraries for more information.

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Search across more than 800,000 doctoral dissertations and Habilitationsschriften from universities outside of the U.S. and Canada.

A demand purchase program allows Northeastern's library to order foreign dissertations at no charge as part of our CRL membership. Searching is open to all, but ordering dissertations requires current NU faculty, staff, or student status.

Use the thesis request form in ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan system, to request dissertations from outside the US and Canada. We will take care of the rest. Please note dissertations ordered from CRL will take longer to provide than other interlibrary materials.

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Over 250 photographs taken or collected by amateur photographer, Charles H. Bruce, depicting life in the early 1900s of the African American middle class of Boston. Photographs document the Charlestown Navy Yard, Bruce’s family and colleagues, and the Prince Hall Masons.

This project was partially funded with federal assistance from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

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Over 7,700 documents and images selected from the Chinese Progressive Association records held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. Founded in 1977 in Boston's Chinatown, the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) records document urban development, workers’ rights, immigrants’ rights, minority rights, community relations, racial violence, bilingual education, and retraining adult workers during the last decades of the 20th century and into the 21st century.

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A wide range of scholarship in international affairs, including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. 1991 to the present.

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Provides easy access to all the publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). It covers ASCE documents published since 1975 including all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines and newsletters. There is full text access to the ASCE journals for which Snell library has a print subscription.

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ClinicalKey delivers all of Elsevier's medical and surgical content in one dynamic resource, giving users access to over 900 top books, over 500 top journals, thousands of videos and millions of images.

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The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Full text.

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This online collection from the UK National Archives, currently being digitized, covers the CO5 documents from the period 1606-1822. This is original correspondence between the governers of British colonies in North America and the Caribbean, and their responsible departments in Britain. Among the correspondence are diaries, maps, broadsides, laws, public notices, newspaper clippings, and more.

Images of the original documents plus searchable full text are included. They may be searched by date, name, theme, region and more.

Colonial America is a 5-module resource being released over a 5-year period. Northeastern currently has access to modules 1 and 2.

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is an indexing and abstracting tool covering the communications disorders literature, with focus on speech-language pathology and audiology. In one convenient location, the database will quickly identify and connect you to reliable information from multiple sources in your field, including journal articles and books, along with access to profiles of researchers working in this area.

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A comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database, including peer reviewed journals, professional literature, conference proceedings, book series, dissertations, and trade publications. A broad view of engineering is included with research information from the fields of nanotechnology, bioengineering, food science, medical devices, and more.

Author profiles and citation counts are also available.

Combining your search with INSPEC adds a comprehensive database of physics, computer science and electrical engineering research and professional literature to your results. Use the toggle checkboxes to include or exclude Compendex or Inspec from your search.

Coverage: 1969 to present, including some older backfiles, and new articles in press from over 1,000 journals.

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Conference Proceedings Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, helps researchers access the published literature from significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide. This resource lets you use cited reference searching to track emerging ideas and new research beyond what is covered in the journal literature. Two editions cover the sciences and social sciences.

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The new Data Citation IndexSM from Thomson Reuters is designed to be the first single source of data discovery for the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities. Data Citation Index fully indexes a significant number of the world's leading data repositories of critical interest to the scientific community, including over two million data studies and datasets. The records for the datasets, which include authors, institutions, keywords, citations and other metadata, are ten connected to related peer-reviewed literature indexed in the Web of KnowledgeSM.

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Alexander Street Counseling provides video for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Users can create, edit and share playlists or clips. The library has Volume 1.

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Congressional Quarterly's portal for research in US government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Includes CQ's Politics in America, as well as other almanacs, data, and news publications.

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ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index™ is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. The database includes abstract and indexing for 250 titles, with more than 100 available in full-text.

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The Data Citation Index on the Web of Knowledge platform provides a single point of access to quality research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world.
Through linked content and summary information, this data is displayed within the broader context of the scholarly research, enabling users to gain perspective that is lost when data sets or repositories are viewed in isolation. These connections allow researchers to efficiently access an array of data across subjects and regions, providing a comprehensive picture of research output, to maximize research efforts and accurately assess importance.

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Over 5,000 documents and photographs from the Northeastern Department of Athletics’ Varsity Club Hall of Fame records held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. Established in 1974, the Varsity Club Hall of Fame holds an annual induction ceremony to honor exceptional Northeastern athletes, coaches, and benefactors. The records consist of files on inductees which include biographical data, induction programs, newspaper clippings, notes, photographs, press releases, and travel sheets.

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An independent organization founded by journalists and scholars, the National Security Archive promotes open government by acting as a clearinghouse for declassified information.

The Digital National Security Archive consists of declassified government documents, chronologies, images, bibliographies, and explanatory essays on topics related to national security. There are 42 collections consisting of over 100,00 objects. Each of these collections covers critical world events, countries, and U.S. foreign policy from post-World War II to the present. Primary source information is of value to researchers in international relations.

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The DPLA is a united collection of primary source information digitized from America’s libraries, archives, and museums, from the written word to works of art and culture, to records of the heritage of the United States, to the efforts and data of science. Strengths include photographs and documents of American culture and history.

Ways to search and scan through the collection of millions of items include by timeline, map, virtual bookshelf, format, and topic. Freely available.

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A secure repository system, designed to store and share scholarly, administrative, and archival materials from the Northeastern University community.

Includes historic photographs, theses and dissertations written at Northeastern, faculty publications and presentations, and records documenting the history of Boston’s African American, Chinese, LGBTQ, Latino and other communities, as well as Boston’s public infrastructure, neighborhoods, and natural environments.

Anyone is welcome to use the DRS to discover publicly available content. Members of the Northeastern community may sign in to access additional content that may not be publicly available.

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Provides a comprehensive index to all open access, scientific and scholarly peer-reviewed journals. Supported by a network of public and private publishers and foundations. (All titles also included in the NU Libraries E-journal Finder.)

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Docuseek2 is an academic streaming source for social issue films and documentaries, with hundreds of titles in all major disciplines. The platform provides exclusive educational streaming access to content from Bullfrog Films, Collective Eye Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Kartemquin Films, the National Film Board of Canada, Scorpion TV Sincerely Films, Terra Nova Films and Villon Films.

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Early American newspapers, often printed by small-town printers, documented the daily life of hundreds of diverse American communities, supported different political parties and recorded both majority and minority views. Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 340,000 fully searchable issues from over 730 invaluable American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies. Providing unprecedented access to the nation’s early periods, Early American Newspapers enables researchers to explore essential newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia.

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469 issues of The East Boston Community News from 1970 to 1989 which include coverage on neighborhood issues and events such as the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools, politics, land use, and airport issues.

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The American Economic Association's electronic database and the foremost source of references to economic literature. The online heir to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), EconLit is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. Links to full text and ordering options

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The LearnTechLib Digital Library is an online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and proceedings papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.

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Education in Video is an online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Upon completion, the collection contains 4,306 titles totaling 1,301 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. It will give education faculty, students, and in-service teachers a single source for the best research-based professional development video resources available.

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The Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 has information on societal trends affecting education, including segregation, multiculturalism, feminism, and economic developments. It includes over 800 periodicals and cites around 850,000 articles and book reviews.

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Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,870 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,060 journals, and includes full text for more than 133 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.

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A selection of academic journal articles, hundreds of full-text reports, and reference sources in the field of education, including educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices, from 1980 to the present. Updated daily.

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The largest and most comprehensive online historical archive of its kind and an essential resource for advanced study of the eighteenth century, this collection contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800. The works that were filmed for this collection come from a number of major institutions, including the British Library, the Bodleian (Oxford), Cambridge University, Harvard University, Library of Congress, the Huntington Library, University of Manchester and many more.

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EMCS is an online collection of peer-reviewed teaching cases focusing on business decision making and management development through key emerging markets. Cases are written by case writers working in or closely with developing economies, offering local perspective with global appeal.

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Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.

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Published by Johns Hopkins University Press for the American Studies Association (ASA), the Encyclopedia of American Studies covers the history, philosophy, arts, and cultures of the United States in relation to the world, from pre-colonial days to the present, from various perspectives and the global American Studies movement. With over 800 online, searchable articles and accompanying bibliographies, related websites, illustrations, and supplemental material, theEncyclopedia of American Studies is the leading reference work for American Studies. Access to content on this site is open to the public and is subject to copyright protection.

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Provides a comprehensive overview of universal modes of communication, the media used to communicate, theories of communication and their implications, careers in communications and information, and biographies of notable figures in the field.

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All about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. Free, fully searchable articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. Written in non-technical language useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.

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The Encyclopedia of Food and Health provides users with a solid bridge of current and accurate information spanning food production and processing, from distribution and consumption to health effects. It identifies the essential nutrients and how to avoid their deficiencies, explores the use of diet to reduce disease risk and optimize health, and compiles methods for detection and quantitation of food constituents, food additives and nutrients, and contaminants.

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The Encyclopedia of Food Safety provides unbiased and concise overviews on a broad range of food safety topics including: History and basic sciences that support food safety; Foodborne diseases, including surveillance and investigation; Foodborne hazards, including microbiological and chemical agents; Substances added to food, both directly and indirectly; Food technologies, including the latest developments; Food commodities, including their potential hazards and controls; Food safety management systems, including their elements and the roles of stakeholders. The Encyclopedia provides a platform for experts from the field of food safety and related fields, such as nutrition, food science and technology and environment to share and learn from state-of-the art expertise with the rest of the food safety community.

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Complete and authoritative coverage of genetics compiled into a single, comprehensive source, containing a clear presentation of cutting-edge knowledge. A reference work for everyone from the academic researcher to the educated layperson.

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Covers all aspects of global health, including physical/mental health and public policy topics, biographies of major doctors and researchers, profiles of medical institutions, organizations, and corporations, and descriptions of drugs and operations.

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The Encyclopedia of Health Economics offers students, researchers and policymakers objective and detailed empirical analysis and clear reviews of current theories and polices. It helps practitioners such as health care managers and planners by providing accessible overviews into the broad field of health economics, including the economics of designing health service finance and delivery and the economics of public and population health.

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Designed to illuminate the concepts and interrelationships between nutrient needs, dietary intake and health outcomes. An effective tool for the nutrition scientist seeking to fill the void of information in areas beyond his/her field of expertise. Published in 2006.

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A compendium of nearly 700 authoritative, research-based entries on the complete range of topics that, together, define the contemporary state of knowledge on technology and its organizational, managerial, behavioral, and social implications. Enhanced with definitions of thousands of technical and managerial terms, as well as a reference section that directs researchers, scholars, students, and practitioners to additional sources for further reading and research.

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The Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society presents some 490 articles showing the math behind our daily lives, explaining how and why math works, and allowing readers to better understand how disciplines such as algebra, geometry, calculus, and others affect what we do every day.

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The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is a reference work which describes the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world.

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The Encyclopedia of Mental Health presents a comprehensive overview of the many genetic, neurological, social, and psychological factors that affect mental health, also describing the impact of mental health on the individual and society, and illustrating the factors that aid positive mental health.

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The Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences covers all areas of neurological sciences through over 1000 entries focused on a wide variety of topics in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and other related areas of neuroscience.

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Over 400 encyclopedia articles, each approximately 3000-4000 words in length, with further reading lists and extensive cross referencing on the science of the oceans, including ancillary topics such as ocean technology, law of the oceans, global programs, marine policy, the use of the oceans for food and energy, and the impact of pollution and climate changes.Designed for a wide audience of students, academics, researchers, and professionals. The articles are written at a level that allows undergraduate students to understand the material, while providing active researchers with the latest technical information.

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The Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics explores how the rise of social media is altering politics both in the United States and in key moments, movements, and places around the world. Its scope encompasses the disruptive technologies and activities that are changing basic patterns in American politics and the amazing transformations that social media use is rendering in other political systems heretofore resistant to democratization and change.

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Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies provides an authoritative assessment of the sustainable technologies that are currently available or in development. Sustainable technology includes the scientific understanding, development and application of a wide range of technologies and processes and their environmental implications. Systems and lifecycle analyses of energy systems, environmental management, agriculture, manufacturing and digital technologies provide a comprehensive method for understanding the full sustainability of processes.

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The third edition of the Encyclopedia of Toxicology presents entries devoted to key concepts and specific chemicals, and is updated to reflect current advances in the field. It contains new information on nanotoxicology, epigenetics, persistent organic pollutants, computational toxicology and bioinformatics, controversial chemicals, and much more. Along with the traditional scientific entries, new articles focus on worldwide initiatives, the potential health and environmental effects of new technologies, and the societal implications of global legal and regulatory issues.

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Biochemistry, Chemistry, Environmental Research Across Disciplines, Health Sciences, Public Health

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An archival research resource containing essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. Core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles.

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This database has content that ranges from journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings to guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from entrepreneurs in a variety of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as text and PDFs.

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A nearly comprehesive online library of education research and information, including scholarly article citations, citations to professional literature, education dissertations, and book listings. Grey literature such as curriculum guides, conference proceedings, government publications, and white papers.

Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

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Interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.

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Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a comprehensive reference work cataloging all of the world’s known living languages. Since 1951, the Ethnologue has been an active research project involving hundreds of linguists and other researchers around the world. It is widely regarded to be the most comprehensive source of information of its kind.

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The Europa World of Learning is a comprehensive directory of academic institutions worldwide. Primarily arranged by country the directory includes colleges and universities, international organizations, regulatory and representative bodies, learned societies, research institutes, libraries and archives, museums and art galleries.

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Facts & Comparisons® contains authoritative and comprehensive drug information with unbiased, reliable information. In addition to descriptions, generic and commercial names, dosage, warnings, it includes a drug/disease indications database, dosage, body measurement, and general pharmacology calculators, patient handouts, and much more for the health professional, and pharmacy and pharmacology researcher.

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Over 160 documents and photographs selected from the Faculty Wives records held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. The Northeastern University Faculty Wives was a social organization formed in 1941 by and for the wives of the University's faculty. The records consist of a cookbook, membership lists, program of activities, meeting minutes, financial reports, and annual reports.

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Film Platform was designed to serve as a bridge between the film world and academia. The collection is meticulously curated by film experts and leading academics to showcase meaningful documentaries of social, political and cultural importance by some of the world’s top international film makers.

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A brief introduction to the legal systems of 190 foreign countries and jurisdications, a list of codifications, gazettes and other sources of law. Also, it identifies any available English translations. Searchable by country, subject, or keyword.

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This collection makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. These formerly restricted British government documents, consisting of diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, maps, reports of court cases, biographies of leading personalities, summaries of events and diverse other materials, provide unprecedented levels of detail into one of the most turbulent centuries of Chinese history.

Foundation Grants to Individuals is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.

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Foundation Grants to Individuals Online is the premier funding research tool for finding foundations that provide financial support for individual grantseekers. It describes giving for a variety of purposes, including scholarships, student loans, fellowships, program development, internships, professorships, arts and cultural projects, research, awards/grants by nomination only and general welfare. It is intended to be both a grantseeker's guide and a reference tool for those interested in foundation giving to individuals. Foundation Grants to Individuals Online is updated on a weekly basis, providing the most up-to-date information available on foundations that fund individual grantseekers.

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Over 2400 images and photographs selected from the Freedom House records held in the NU Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. The images date from 1950-1975 and document early activities to create an integrated Roxbury; citizen participation in the urban renewal of Roxbury; and early oversight of Boston Public Schools desegregation.

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The Gartner IT Library provides access to more than 110,000 documents on more than 1,200 topics, including technology products, services, and trends, global IT industry perspectives, IT management and organizations, IT strategies and governance, business-IT issues, and real-world case studies.

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Reprints full articles from women's studies magazines and newsletters (including some that are hard to find in print), as well as some scholarly journals. Some articles go back to the 1970's. You can browse a list of subjects or search by key words.

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The GeoRef database, established by the American Geological Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 90,000 references a year. The database contains over 2.9 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

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A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, academic publishers, professional societies, preprints, universities and other scholarly organizations.NU affiliates: enhance Google Scholar by selecting "Scholar Preferences" and "Full Text @ NU Libraries".

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Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE is an informative resource for anyone concerned about our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles, and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

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Courses at the Hague Academy are published in the Collected Courses, the Academy’s flagship collection. These contributions by prestigious authors deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law.

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The 96th Edition, 2015-2016, of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is a vast almanac of facts, tables, and statistics about mathematics and the physical world. It is one of the most used handbooks in the sciences. The online version allows for expanded functionality over the print; in particular, interactive tables that allow you to customize data by filtering just what you need and sorting colunmns. You may search all text, tables, or CAS registry numbers, and export or email the information to yourself.

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This book consists of 4 volumes containing about 70 chapters covering all the major aspects of the growing area of nanomedicine. Leading scientists from 15 countries cover all major areas of nanobiomedical research — materials for nanomedicine, application of nanomedicine in therapy of various diseases, use of nanomedicines for diagnostic purposes, technology of nanomedicines, and new trends in nanobiomedical research.

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A partnership between libraries to digitize and share their print collections, the Hathi Trust Digital Library offers chiefly text materials, such as books, documents, and journals.

Northeastern University is a HathiTrust partner institution, and offers the ability to log in to Hathi Trust Digital Library to download full-PDFs of all public domain works, as well as works made available under Creative Commons licenses.

Always log in, whether you are on- or off-campus, for the best results.

Text mining of the entire database via API is also available.

Users with print disabilities who are registered with Northeastern's Disability Resource Center are able to access the full text of Northeastern print holdings that are also in Hathi Trust.

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From the legal publisher William S. Hein. Provides full text legal documents including regulations and other government publications, reports, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) and UN Treaty series, and over 1,600 law reviews and journals.

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Rich collection important to a full understanding of Unites States history. Includes the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).

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A classic 2-volume reference work containing statistics about the United States has been updated and is now available online from Cambridge. Tables of statistics include information about population, slavery, the economy, and much more. Download in Excel or .csv. Sorting, graphs and plots available.

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Primary source archival materials like letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and diaries. NU Libraries' subscription is selective. Collections include: Immigration Records from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Papers, Women's Rights Collections with documents from organizations like the Women's Party and League of Women Voters. From the ProQuest University Publications of America (UPA) Collection.

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The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents.
HSDL provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and research reports from various universities, organizations, local agencies and state agencies.

185 oral history interviews conducted by the National Park Services in 1984-5 with people who immigrated through, or worked at, Ellis Island, during the period of mass migration to the United States are also included.

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Index Chemicus®, accessed via Web of Science®, provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students with quick, powerful access to the chemical compound information they need to find research data, analyze trends, journals and researchers, and share their findings.

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English-language articles and book reviews on Jewish history, activity and thought in more than 220 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. For students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern studies. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.

Courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System.

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This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section or other fields, eliminating random searching through newspaper archives. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

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Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education. This resource includes: breaking news and feature stories, provocative daily commentary, areas for comment on every article, practical career columns, and a powerful suite of tools to help higher education professionals get jobs and colleges identify and hire employees.

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The Inspec database provides deep coverage of scientific and technical literature in the field of physics, with additional links to citations in electrical engineering, electronics, computer science, and manufacturing information. It describes articles in more than 3,400 journals, 2,000 conference proceedings as well as books, dissertations and reports. Links to full text or interlibrary loan options are included for each citaton . Produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

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The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. IBSS includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing.

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From Sage Reference, this eight-volume encyclopedia covers every field of politics, from political theory and methodology to political sociology, comparative politics, public policies, and international relations. It provides an essential, authoritative guide to the state of political science at the start of the 21st century and for decades to come.

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International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Second Edition is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health. Covering all dimensions of the field, from the details of specific diseases, to the organization of social insurance agencies, the articles included cover the fundamental research areas of health promotion, economics, and epidemiology, as well as specific diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and reproductive health.

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Fully revised and updated, the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, first published in 2001, offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper than any other. Available in both print and online editions, it comprises over 3,900 articles, commissioned by 71 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.

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This Encyclopedia is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and behavioral sciences on a grand scale. Not since the publication in 1968 of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by David L. Sills, has there been such an ambitious project to describe the state of the art in all the fields encompassed within the social and behavioral sciences. Available in both print (26 volumes) and online editions, it comprises 4,000 articles, commissioned by 52 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.

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International Historical Statistics is an impressive and peerless collection of statistical data from around the world, covering a wide range of socio-economic topics. The collection includes data on the Americas and Europe, but also hard-to-find data on Africa, Asia and Oceania. It is a truly interdisciplinary product that will prove a valuable resource to those researching and studying Business, Economics, Environmental Studies, Geography, History, Politics, Sociology and Statistical Studies.

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A comprehensive index to worldwide pharmaceutical literature, with abstracts from over 750 health journals, major pharmacy meetings, and all U.S. state pharmacy journals. Covers biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics, new drug delivery systems, pharmacist liability, and legal, political, and ethical issues.

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Digitized versions of unique and rare books from libraries, museums, and historical institutions, including Northeastern University Libraries collections, such as historical Course Catalogs. Includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as the Wayback Machine for archived web pages. Especially useful for persons with disabilities, as it provides adaptive reading services and other services for people with disabilities. Northeastern collections developed in partnership with the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and the Open Content Alliance.

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Selected photographs digitized from the James W. Fraser (collector) photograph collection held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. The photographs document the people involved in and affected by Judge Garrity's 1974 decision to desegregate Boston public schools by means of forced busing. Most of the photographs depict anti–busing protests and marches and demonstrations by parents around Boston from the mid-1970s.

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A multidisciplinary view into the study of Jewish civilization from its historical origins to the present. Content within the collection is meant to cover all facets of Judaism and multiple areas of study. Over 350 full-text titles including academic journals, abstracts of monographs, newspapers and periodicals, including complete Jewish Telegraphic Agency wire service articles from 1922 to the present.

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Full text access to over 400 core medical, nursing, pharmacology journals from a variety of publishers including Lippincott Williams and Williams. Coverage begins as early as 1993 for some titles. Updated daily.View a complete list of the journal titles.

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JoVE Bioengineering merges both physical and life sciences to understand and predict biological processes. Applying physical science tools to life science questions allow for the discovery of better technologies to measure, diagnose, and clinically treat disease.

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JoVE Immunology and Infection includes content from a variety of fields working toward a shared initiative of improving global health. Techniques evaluating the biological response to pathogens from the molecular to organismal level are presented as well as therapeutic agents and their efficacy in treating disease.

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JoVE Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary section devoted to investigations of the structure, function, physiology, and pathophysiology of the brain and nervous system. Included methodologies range from molecular and cellular level studies to full central and peripheral neural systems. Potential treatment platforms and surgical techniques for neurological diseases and disorders are also presented in this section.

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JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) Science Education is a video database dedicated to teaching laboratory fundamentals through simple, easy to understand video demonstrations. Currently access is available to the General Lab Techniques, Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Essentials of Neuroscience sections. Each video is paired with additional video resources for you to view practical applications of the technique and other complementary skills.

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A trusted digital archive of academic journals and other scholarly content. Most journals include extended historic backfiles and not current issues. Arts and Sciences collections 1 thru XV are available, plus the Life Sciences collection, and Business III.

The Northeastern Library also purchases individual e-book titles from JSTOR. The books are available chapter-by-chapter as PDFs.

Arts and Sciences IV content is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.

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Over 480 photographs and documents from the Julius A. Prince papers held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. Prince was a photographer for Freedom House, Inc., a community service organization in Roxbury, in the 1960s. The photographs document houses and participants from Freedom House's Roxbury Work Study Program, a project to revitalize the Washington Park area of Roxbury. In addition to the photographs, there are a few brochures on the program and staff lists.

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L’Année philologique covers a wide array of subjects, including Greek and Latin literature and linguistics—which includes early Christian texts and patristics—Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly subspecialties such as numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy.

Abstracts of journal articles are in English, German, Spanish, French or Italian. Books entries often include tables of contents and book review information.

Law360 is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.

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Up-to-date legal news focusing on business law, useful for research on high-stakes litigation and high-profile legislation, as well as lawsuits against major corporations. Also includes legal job listings. From Lexis-Nexis.

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The LearnTechLib Digital Library is an online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and proceedings papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.

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LexisNexis has introduced Nexis Uni, which will replace LexisNexis Academic in 2018 and is now available for use.

Up-to-date business and legal information is the strength of the LexisNexis Academic service. It allows you to search for newspapers, periodicals, public records, and legal documents, often within 24 hours of publication, and in some cases going back 20 years. Most documents are available in full text.

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Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. Includes phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Covers various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations.

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Full text access to over 270 medical, nursing, and pharmacology journals from Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, along with backfiles from additional publishers. Updated daily.View a complete list of the journal titles.

Courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System.

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Provides biographical and critical overviews of most authors, together with critical reactions to their works and bibliographies for further research. Includes cross-search of Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Excellent starting place, but not exhaustive.

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Important at-risk documents in law and government from U.S. and various other national jurisdictions, useful for research on topics such as international relations, global trade, environmental policy, labor politics, civil rights, and immigration. Particularly strong in 18th to early 20th century law in the British Empire and Commonwealth, including Canadian federal and provincial courts back to their inception, extensive runs from the Indian subcontinent, and more from Australia, Haiti, Ireland, Cuba, and South Africa. Provided through our Center for Research Libraries membership.

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The LLMC Open Access Collection has been made available through partnerships and grants designed to give the world unrestricted access to specific content. Only select titles are available via the Open Access Collection.

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London Times access *not including the Sunday edition* from 1785 to 1985. Also known as The Times Digital Archive, and published under the name Times of London. An invaluable source for primary historical research.

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Lynda provides online access to over 1500 on-demand courses on hundreds of subject areas, including office productivity, audio, video, and web software, as well as business and job skills. New courses are added to Lynda every week to keep pace with ever-changing technology and skill needs. Login with your myNEU username and password.

This project was funded by the generous donations of Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences alumni.

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Over 1900 documents, photographs, and album/scrapbook pages from two photograph albums and one scrapbook from the Marjorie Bouvé papers held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. A leader in physical education, Marjorie Bouvé (1879-1970) was one of the founders of Northeastern’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences. The scrapbook items contains mementos from social events, travel, and schools at which Bouvé taught or attended. The photograph albums document the leisure activities of Bouvé and her friends.

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Provides company, industry, country and financial data for every major marketplace in the world. Includes company SWOTs, company overviews, industry profiles, case studies, financial deals, country analysis, news and a statistics database covering over half a million data points for 215 countries and 46 political and geographic groupings.

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Medline is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier database of articles in medicine, with indexing and abstracts for the most important peer-reviewed biomedical and health sciences research journals.

Medline includes literature published from 1966 to the present, with selected coverage prior to that period. Journals are selected by a committee of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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Medline is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier database of articles in medicine, with indexing and abstracts for the most important peer-reviewed biomedical and health sciences research journals.

Medline from Web of Science includes literature published from 1950 to the present. Journals are selected by a committee of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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MedlinePlus is the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Web site for authoritative and current consumer health information. Locate information on 800+ diseases and health conditions, prescriptions and OTC drugs, herbs and supplements. Link out to related anatomy and surgery videos, journal articles, clinical trials and patient education handouts. Includes a medical dictionary and an encyclopedia. Directories are available to use in locating hospitals, doctors, organizations, and more. Interactive tutorials, calculators, quizzes and games provide fun ways to learn about health issues and wellness. Produced by the National Library of Medicine. Spanish language version available.

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Meet the Press from Alexander Street opens up a wealth of information to libraries by making over 1,500 hours of footage—the full surviving broadcast run to date—available online in one cross-searchable interface.

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Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Allows for evaluation of test products in psychology, education, business, and leadership. This online service covers from Volume 9 to the present.

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Mergent WebReports is an online database that allows you to access a vast archive of corporate and industry related documents. WebReports contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries using an easy to navigate and reliable system.

Includes Digital Corporate Manuals and the Digital Municipal & Government Manuals.

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Access to detailed global company information, including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form.If you are off-campus, click here. (Best used with Internet Explorer)

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Information and analysis of the Middle East including the Middle East Report, which provides news and analysis not generally found in mainstream sources. Independent with no links to other educational, religious, or political organizations.

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The Museum's OASC initiative provides license- and cost-free access to images of artwork in the collection that the Museum believes to be in the public domain and free of other known restrictions for scholarly use in any media. The Museum has identified these as on the site. Look for this icon below images in the Collection section of the website to identify images that are part of the OASC initiative.

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Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content including full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

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This database is a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore and linguistics which has been compiled by the Modern Language Association of America since 1926. The electronic version includes the Bibliography's entire print run and currently contains more than 2 million records.

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NCJRS from the US Department of Justice offers extensive reference and referral services to help you find answers to your questions about crime and justice-related research, policy, and practice. This Ebsco version allows you to combine your search with other Ebsco databases.

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The National Film Registry is a list of movies deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" that are earmarked for preservation by the Library of Congress. They are selected as works of enduring importance to American culture. They are historical documents which reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The Library of Congress does not endorse the views expressed in these movies, which may contain content offensive to users.

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The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is the nation's leading private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Its Working Papers have not undergone the review accorded official NBER publications; in particular, they have not been submitted for approval by the Board of Directors. They are intended to make results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form to encourage discussion and suggestions for revision before final publication. 1973-present.

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NDLTD is a freely searchable catalog of theses and dissertations contributed by member institutions from around the world. When viewing search results, click "view source record" to link to detailed information and the full text of the thesis or dissertation, if available.

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The Historical New York Times collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text back to the first issue. Magazine and classifieds included. Go to "Advanced Search"--> "Look up citation" to find a specific article by author, title, page, date and more.

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Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. It allows you to search for newspapers, periodicals, public records, and legal documents, often within 24 hours of publication, and in some cases going back 20 years. Most documents are available in full text.

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Rich primary source database with over 150,000 pages of diaries and letters from 1,325 women. Keyword-searchable and with some pre-selected sub-collections of primary sources arranged around important historical events. Also includes author biographies and bibliographies for further research.

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History, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, English & American Literature

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A growing collection of images relating to the University from 1902 to the present. In the collection, you will find representations of academic programs, student life, faculty, the campus, athletics, and University events including commencement.

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The Northeastern University yearbooks from 1917 to 2007 available to view or download from the Internet Archive. The yearbook, the Cauldron, contains student recollections, years in review, and photographs of seniors, student activities, campus scenes, and sports.

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Full text access to over 400 core medical, nursing, pharmacology journals from a variety of publishers including Lippincott Williams and Williams. Coverage begins as early as 1993 for some titles. Updated daily. View a complete list of the journal titles.

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Over 600 slides documenting Northeastern University between 1945 and 1973 from the Oberg Slide collection held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. Most of the slides were taken by Doris Oberg, but a few were taken by her husband Rudolf Oberg, former Director of Alumni Affairs. The slides document campus events, alumni events, campus buildings, faculty, and student activities.

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A specialized collection of 13 online encyclopedias in the field of global and economic technologies, including hospitality, travel and tourism management, consumer management, e-commerce, the digital divide and developing countries, and more. Supports research in the impact of technology on the management of cultural content and tourism.

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Our Marathon is a crowd-sourced, digital archive of pictures, videos, stories, and social media related to the Boston Marathon bombing.

You may search, read, listen, and contribute to the site.

The mission of the site says: We believe that sharing stories from survivors, families, witnesses, visitors to the city, and everyone around the world touched by the event will speed the healing process. This is the place to share those images, emotions, and experiences to help us understand the bombing and its aftermath.

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Formerly "Grove Art Online" this resource includes images, definitions, and analysis from Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contains over 58,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles, and who died in or before 2008. Authoritative in-depth articles include likenesses and detailed lists of additional sources.

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Surveys the vibrant terrain of American literature in 350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day. (Published in 2004)

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Covers the history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin). It includes substantial accounts of individual authors (e.g., Spenser, Pope, Austen) and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions. (Published in 2006)

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A comprehensive guide to the essentials of evolutionary biology, these entries by leading experts survey essential concepts and theories, present methods, models and findings, and discuss both the history of the field and current controversies. Published in 2002.

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From Apple Pie to Zombie, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America covers the significant events, inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink. A collaboration of nearly 200 contributors this is a scholarly work with a generous bibliography. (Published in 2004.)

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Comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002) plus additional resources.

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This bibliographic database offers informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology and book reviews.

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PILOTS is a bibliographic database produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont, and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. Includes journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages.

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Combines a comprehensive, editorially maintained database of grants and other funding opportunities worth an estimated $33 billion, along with a database of 3 million pre-populated scholar profiles. Users may search for funding opportunities and view matching faculty from inside or outside Northeastern University. Conversely, a search for scholars will link to matching funding opportunities based on their research profiles. You may register to receive alerts whenever new matching opportunities are posted that match certain criteria. Pivot replaces three previous COS (Community of Scholars) databases: Expertise, Funding Opportunities, and Scholar Universe.

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Offering access to U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature, PolicyFile is updated weekly with abstracts and links to the latest reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies.

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ProQuest Political Science gives users access to over 150 leading political science and international relations journals. This collection provides full-text of many core titles included in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.

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PressReader provides online access to today's newspapers from over 100 countries around the world in over 60 languages in a full-color, full-page format. The ever-expanding collection currently includes over 5,000. Just like reading the familiar print edition, users can browse articles and other key content, such as pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices. Users have the ability to perform keyword searches across all titles and the entire archive.

PressReader provides advanced digital features such as interactive tables of content, foreign language translation in 17 different languages, cross title searching, sharing of articles through email or blog postings, bookmarks and text-to-voice conversion.

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Project Muse allows searching of articles from journals in the humanities, including religion, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, women's studies, film and the arts. Coverage is generally from about 1994 to the present, depending on the journal.

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The Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) is the American Physical Society's online archive for Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review A–E. It contains all APS journal articles published from 1893–2007. Each January, another year is added to the archive.

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With over 2.7 million entries, Proquest Dissertations is the authoritative resource for searching doctoral dissertations and master's theses from around the world, from 1861 to the present. Full text PDFs are usually available to download for theses published since 1997.

Beginning in 2008, Northeastern University Masters and PhD students submit their completed dissertations to this "database of record" for graduate research.

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This database has content that ranges from journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings to guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from entrepreneurs in a variety of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as text and PDFs.

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This collection provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education. Featured databases include IBSS, PAIS and Sociological Abstracts. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, including deep indexing and full text from over 500 important social science journals.

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PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals.

The database can be searched in several ways including by specifying keywords that may occur in the article title, abstract, or the full-text, or by author names and journal titles. Each retrieved record has a link to the corresponding full-text article, which is almost always available in PDF format (so Adobe Acrobat reader is needed for viewing) and in HTML format. Each record also has a link to the Table of Contents (TOC) for the issue in which the article is published.

The database can also be searched for articles of interest by browsing directly through the journal titles and then clicking to the tables of contents for the respective volumes and issues.

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PsychiatryOnline Premium Collection includes diagnosis and differential diagnosis tools, case vignettes, multidisciplinary treatment guidelines, journals and books. It includes full text for the following titles:

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Psychotherapy.net is a library resource that offers 100+ videos for teaching, training, self-study and continuing education. Since 1995, Psychotherapy.net has been producing and distributing the highest quality training videos in psychotherapy, counseling and addiction treatment. These videos are now available to the Northeastern community.

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This database is published by the American Psychological Associations and provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts of the international psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. Documents indexed include journals, articles, books, dissertations and more. 90% of the 3,000+ titles indexed in PsycINFO are peer-reviewed.

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PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's open-access database, encompassing Medline,a health information clearinghouse of articles from the National Library of Medicine, plus articles deposited by authors and publishers as part of National Institutes of Health funding requirements. Some articles are available in full text, others may require a Northeastern login to access or request.

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PubMed Central (PMC) is an electronic archive of full-text journal articles in the biomedical and life sciences, offering free access to its contents. Sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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Readers’ Guide Retrospective covers some of the most important events in history — this database offers access to 100 years of the original paper volumes—providing information about history, culture, science and seminal developments.

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Journal articles in world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.

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Three oral histories conducted in 1989 and 1990 with prominent members of Boston’s African American community: Milton Derr, a painter, illustrator and retired teacher; Mel King, a community activist and retired professor; and Byron Rushing, a civil rights activist and Representative for the 9th Suffolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. They were interviewed about their lives and work in preparation for a book by Ronald W. Bailey, Diane Turner, and Robert Hayden, entitled Lower Roxbury: A Community of Treasures in the City of Boston.

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Royal Society of Chemistry e-books provide in-depth, up-to-date and authoritative coverage across the chemical sciences and related areas, making them valuable references for students, researchers and scientists in academia and industry.

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SAGE Knowledge is home to an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content alongside SAGE Video, containing over 4,600 titles. Content includes reference works, academic books, professional development titles and more. This cross-media platform allows users to search and browse over 10,000 items, video, book and reference titles within the Social Sciences.

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SAGE Research Methods is an online collection of information that supports beginning and advanced researchers looking for the best methods to use in their research.

Learn about a range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for the social and behavioral sciences, as well as many methods commonly used in the hard sciences. You can also find information on other parts of doing research such as writing a research question, gathering and analyzing data, working with teams, and publishing findings.

Handbooks such as the Qualitative Research Methods Series offer "how to" advice and support. Find sample data sets for practicing statistical tests, along with cases, videos, pamphlets and articles illustrating good research management practices.

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Science and technology citation and abstract information including original research articles, reviews, editorials, chronologies from over 7,000 journals. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Linked to EndNoteWeb.
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A mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, health, crime, and marketing data variables including Mediamark and Simmons Consumer Data. Data from the year 2000.

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The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 150,000 pages of material at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics.

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Direct access available to current NU Community. All others, register for free access. This HeinOnline collection brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.

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A business journal that bridges the gap between management research and practice, evaluating and reporting on new research to help readers identify and understand significant trends in management. Online version includes blogs. Journal articles: 2003 to the present.

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When starting a new business, entrepreneurs need all the help they can get. Created by subject experts and a librarian advisory board, Small Business Resource Center brings together hundreds of sample business plans, journals, multimedia content, and more.

Small Business Resource Center covers all major areas of starting and operating a business: financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, taxes and more.

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An international network of music audio archives grounded in the mission of the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Offers access to the "smaller voices" of people all over the world via digital downloads. Aims to heighten communication among and about people and cultures, accomplished principally through the culturally potent, meaning-laden medium of music, accompanied by informative notes, images, videos, educational features, and lesson plans.

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Access to Social Explorer is limited to 5 users at a time. If you are presented with a log-in screen, please try again after a few minutes.

SocialExplorer.com brings together a vast and growing amount of quantitative data with an intuitive visual interface to make demographic research, the analysis of social trends, and comparison of neighborhoods, communities, counties, and other areas accessible and interactive. Updated on a regular basis as new data and features become available, SocialExplorer.com is a reliable and complete reference of quantitative modern and historical information.

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Citations and abstracts in anthropology, sociology, urban studies, business and communication, criminology, penology, law, nursing, rehabilitation, and library sciences. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Linked to EndNoteWeb.
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This collection provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education. Featured databases include IBSS, PAIS and Sociological Abstracts. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, including deep indexing and full text from over 500 important social science journals.

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Social work research is indexed and abstracted in this service, including the family, human services, social welfare, gerontology, support groups, poverty and homelessness and community development. Major areas of coverage include community and mental health services. Articles are from 1980 to the present.

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The main source for abstracts in the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Indexes journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers. Cited references are included for many journal articles.

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Full text articles about sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. Covers many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.

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The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually.

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Online access to full text of 50,000 books and book series from Springer Publishing. While the strength of Springer publishing is in the sciences, including biomedical and health sciences, many disciplines are represented: business, economics, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental science, engineering, law, mathematics, physics and astronomy, and the social sciences. English and German content is included.

Stable links to books and book chapters may be inserted into Blackboard.

Download to a device: Springer e-books are available as standard PDFs by chapter. Email or download to any device with a PDF reader.

Printing: Standard PDFs may be printed. Northeastern affiliates may use Springer's MyCopy service to order personal print-on-demand copies of the books for $24.95, a significant discount over the market price.

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A searchable database of media rates and information; the largest and most comprehensive in the world, with more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties, circulations, advertising rates. Includes Digital Media database.

State House News Service is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.

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Since 1911, the State House News Service in Boston has provided journalists, lobbyists, government officials and other civic and business leaders with high-quality, comprehensive, objective information about the activities of state government year-round.

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Statista is the first statistics portal in the world to integrate data on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista.com provides companies, business customers, research institutions, and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets

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Published annually by the federal government since 1878, The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the best known statistical reference publication in the country, and perhaps the world. You’ll find it behind nearly every reference desk in U.S. libraries as the authoritative go-to source.

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Digital Campus, provided by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.® provides students streaming access to course-related films. These films are licensed for one year and do not come with public performance rights.

Please note: On mobile devices you will be directed to download the Swank Digital Media Player when attempting to access a video. After you download the app, the link to play the video will open in the Swank Digital Media Player app.

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Synthesis is an innovative information service for the research, development, and educational community in engineering and computer science. Synthesis includes 50- to 100- page dynamic 'Lectures' in an important research topic in engineering or computer science. Each lecture is a self-contained electronic book that gives more analysis and depth than typical journal articles.

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ThomasNet includes the Thomas Register, a resource designed to bring together industrial buyers and sellers nationally, regionally, and locally. Includes directory information, product news, CAD drawings and white papers.

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A large collection of U.S. Federal Technical Reports issued prior to 1975, including historical government documents from the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and more. Technical reports communicate research progress in technology and science, and often contain plans, surveys, or data that was the most up-to-date at the time. Provided through our Center for Research Libraries membership.

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Written by a team of international expert scientists, the Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science examines topics in depth, and aims to provide a comprehensive scientific resource for all professionals and students in the area of estuarine and coastal science.

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Important documents of the United States Congress including reports, journals (1817-1952), Senate executive documents, treaties (after 1978), committee reports, executive reports to congress, and more.

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Access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

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Over 90 photographs and documents selected from the United South End Settlements records held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. The United South End Settlements is a non-profit social service agency located in the South End of Boston, Massachusetts, whose mission is to foster well-being, nurture personal growth and development, build a sense of community, and maintain an environment where all can thrive. The records consist of Children Art Centre annual reports, correspondence, brochures, fliers, reports, and photographs of programs, activities, and artwork produced by students.

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35 videos selected from the Northeastern University Photography Media collection from 1982 to 1987 held by the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. The videos document events such as the First Governor's Conference on Violence against Women, 1984; Jesse Jackson’s Presidential Campaign, 1984; the Beanpot Hockey Tournament, 1983; and the Department of Athletics’ Varsity Club Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 1985.

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This company and industry research service includes the flagship ValueLine Investment Survey (Standard and Expanded), plus Mutual Fund Survey, Daily Options Survey, Special Situations Service, and Convertible Survey.

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An accessible introduction to chemistry. Van Nostrand’s Encyclopedia of Chemistry is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible reference. Its intelligential scope ranges from the introductory to the highly technical.

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Citation information and analysis, as well as author abstracts, are available in this multidisciplinary database covering over 10,000 high impact research journals. Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Linked to EndNoteWeb.
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Citations and abstracts from scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes conference proceedings, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. One of the most comprehensive databases of academic research.

Cited reference searching allows you to track prior research, see who is citing your work, measure the influence of someone's work, and navigate forward, backward and through the literature of your discipline. Advanced searching offers the ability to search by institutional affiliation or funding agency, to see who is working in, and funding, similar areas of research to your own.

Use the "All Databases dropdown to link to BIOSIS Previews, BIOSIS Citation Index, and Medline here.
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WebMD is a leading ad-supported publisher of credible and timely health information for consumers. Experts in medicine, journalism and health communications provide news and information on health conditions with links to related articles, news, videos, blogs, slideshows, quizzes, discussions and supportive communities. Other features include drug and supplement information, first aid treatments, health, wellness and nutrition guides and many engaging interactive calculators and tools. One-time registration required to access some features.

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Access to more than 700 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2006. WDI offers chart and data export formats. Indicators include statistics on national and per capita income, trade, health, environment, and other measures of development.

The World Bank: The World Bank authorizes the use of this material subject to its terms and conditions.

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An online collection that provides multicultural, global and research-based content that supports research in history from ancient times to the present. World History in Context offers students and researchers access to a broad collection of scholarly analysis and full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents, including Journal of World History, History Review and The Historian.

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The Europa World of Learning is a comprehensive directory of academic institutions worldwide. Primarily arranged by country the directory includes colleges and universities, international organizations, regulatory and representative bodies, learned societies, research institutes, libraries and archives, museums and art galleries.

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Annotated citations for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1960 and 2011. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 120 languages. Updated quarterly.

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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. The database is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. Since 2000, development of the serials list has focused on expanding international coverage. Approximately 1,500+ titles are being monitored for coverage; of these, 67% are published outside the United States.

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A free web site that acts as a gateway for one-stop searching of dozens of open access repositories of science information from around the world. Maintained by the Office of Science and Technology Information at the U. S. Department of Energy.

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Wharton Research Data Services, or WRDS, is a web-based data management system from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania that allows faculty and students to retrieve information from a wide variety of financial, economic, and marketing data sources.

WRDS is best known for its holdings of historical financial data from CRSP and COMPUSTAT. This data covers over 30,000 companies and includes security prices and trading volume, income and balance sheet items. We provide access to IBES' analyst projections for earnings and sales. WRDS also contains stock market indices, bond prices and interest rates, mutual fund and stock ownership information, options data, and a wide array of macroeconomic time series. International data, marketing and industry reports, and web usage data are also available on WRDS.

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Zoological Record is the world's oldest continuing database of citations in animal biology. It is also considered the world's leading taxonomic reference, and has long acted as an unofficial register of animal names. The broad scope of coverage ranges from biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.